Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

 Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Photo: CNN, The International News Network.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault was born Charlayne Hunter on February 27, 1942, in Due West, South Carolina. She is currently the Johannesburg, South Africa bureau chief for CNN. She is a former national correspondent for PBS and a former chief correspondent for NPR. In 1961 she and Hamilton E. Holmes were the first African-American students to attend the University of Georgia, ending racial segregation at that institution. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 1963.

Ms. Hunter-Gault has won two Peabody Awards and two Emmy Awards for her work in journalism. The academic building at the University of Georgia where she and Holmes registered for classes was renamed the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building in 2001.

Publications

• In My Place. Memoir, 1992. ISBN 0679748180.

• New Georgia Encyclopedia: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• CNN staff biography: Charlayne Hunter-Gault